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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-89494

| EUVDEUVD-2026-76400 CRITICAL
2026-09-11 Linux GHSA-hhc4-rpwx-gp2p
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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Vendor (Linux) PRIMARY
9.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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7.1 HIGH

Reachable over the cluster network but only by a joined o2dlm domain member (PR:L) in a specific OCFS2 config (AC:H); guaranteed panic (A:H) and heap corruption (I:H), limited read leak (C:L).

3.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (Linux).

CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Sep 13, 2026 - 08:15 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Sep 13, 2026 - 07:22 NVD
9.8 (CRITICAL)
Patch available
Sep 11, 2026 - 21:18 EUVD
CVE Published
Sep 11, 2026 - 19:43 cve.org
CRITICAL 9.8
CVE Published
Sep 11, 2026 - 19:43 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionCVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ocfs2: validate lengths in dlm_mig_lockres_handler

A node receiving a DLM_MIG_LOCKRES message trusts several fields of the peer-supplied dlm_migratable_lockres without validation. num_locks and lockname_len are bounded only on the sending side, and the message is never checked to actually carry num_locks migratable_lock entries. As a result dlm_process_recovery_data() walks mres->ml[0..num_locks) past the kmalloc(data_len) copy of the message (an out-of-bounds read that ends in a BUG_ON panic), and dlm_init_lockres() copies lockname_len bytes into the fixed 32-byte o2dlm_lockname slab object (a heap out-of-bounds write). Both are reachable by any node in the domain.

Validate these fields right after dlm_grab(), before anything uses them -- including the not-joined error path, which already prints mres->lockname with the unbounded lockname_len as a %.*s precision. Reject the message unless lockname_len <= DLM_LOCKID_NAME_MAX, num_locks <= DLM_MAX_MIGRATABLE_LOCKS (the bound the sender already asserts), and the payload is large enough to hold the claimed locks. Conforming recovery and migration messages are unaffected.

AnalysisAI

Kernel memory corruption in the Linux kernel's OCFS2 cluster filesystem distributed lock manager (o2dlm) allows any node in a DLM domain to crash or corrupt the heap of a peer node. The dlm_mig_lockres_handler for DLM_MIG_LOCKRES recovery messages trusts the peer-supplied num_locks and lockname_len fields without validation, producing an out-of-bounds read that ends in a BUG_ON panic and a heap out-of-bounds write into a fixed 32-byte lockname slab object. …

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Exploitation Requires the target to be running the Linux kernel with OCFS2 and its o2dlm distributed lock manager active and joined to a cluster DLM domain. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment.
Risk Assessment The input CVSS of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/C:H/I:H/A:H) materially overstates real-world exposure. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in.
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Remediation Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Linux 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, or 7.3-rc1 (or your distribution's backported equivalent carrying the listed stable commits). … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report.

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Within 24 hours: Identify all systems running Linux with OCFS2 and assess their role in business-critical cluster infrastructure. …

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